The Copy Center, located on the first floor of the Discovery Exchange/Bookstore, will close at that location March 1 and move downstairs in the basement level, merging with the college’s Print Services Department. Read more

White House community college tour launches from Columbus State

Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President, and Hilda Solis, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, arrive at Columbus State yesterday morning to kick off a three-day, five-state tour of community colleges. The tour was designed to highlight workforce development partnerships, and Columbus State’s programs in logistics, information technology and insurance were featured in a panel discussion with students and local employers.

At the Community College 2 Career panel discussion, Scott Steward, far right, speaks about his experience training to work as a business analyst for Nationwide Insurance. From left are President Harrison, LogisticsART graduate Erin Woodward, Dr. Jill Biden, LogisticsART graduate Marlon Hairston, LogisticsART graduate Sherry Gassaway, and U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

The Social Sciences Department will offer a Teaching and Research Interest Group Winter Roundtable titled “Is Keynesianism Dead?” on Tuesday, February 28, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Delaware Hall Room 121. The session will be a panel discussion on the relevance of Keynesian economic theory in today's economic, political and social environment. The moderator will be Bob Fitrakis, with panelists Susan Abdel-Gawad, Janet Gross, Clayton Kie, Brent Funderburk and James Moore.

Feel free to bring your students to this panel discussion.
Please contact Jonathan Kreger if you are interested in attending.

The annual Service Awards Recognition Program will held Tuesday, April 3, with a special reception for recipients of awards ranging from five years to 30 years of service to Columbus State.

It is important that we confirm each award winner’s correct information, so if you are expecting to earn a service award of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 years of service; or 25, 50, 75, or 100 quarters of service for adjunct faculty—please go online here: http://www.cscc.edu/hr/awards.shtml to check the spelling of your name and the correct years of service category.

Important: Please contact ServiceAwards@cscc.edu to confirm that your information is correct, or to report any discrepancies on the list.

If you do not find your name on the awards list and feel this is in error, please send your concerns to ServiceAwards@cscc.edu.

Jason LaMar, developer in Instructional Technologies and Distance Learning (ITDL) and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, instructor in Humanities, are featured in an article on 3D technology in the February issue of Campus Technology magazine. The article highlights their collaborative work with Ohio State University in Greece last summer as an innovative use of 3D learning in higher education. You can read the article here:http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/02/01/3d-or-not-to-be.aspx

Communications Technologies and PC Services will move campus departmental shared directories to a new server next weekend, March 3 and 4. This is the drive typically labeled V: in Windows Explorer. For most users this will be a seamless process very similar to the recent Home Directory move.

On the morning of Monday, March 5, scanning documents from the Ricoh copiers to network storage will not work for a few hours while we reconfigure the Ricoh devices throughout campus to point to the new servers. By the afternoon, everything should be back to normal.

If you have questions or problems please call the IT Support Center at 5050 and we will resolve the situation promptly.

The deadline for Employee/Dependent Fee Waivers for Spring Quarter 2012 is Monday, March 12. A Request for Fee Waiver form must be turned into Human Resources by 4:30 p.m. to guarantee that fee waivers will be processed before late fees are assessed.

You may also pay your fees first and be reimbursed within 30 days from the start of the quarter by completing the Request for Fee Waiver form and submitting an official payment receipt into Human Resources by April 26. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Thompson at ext. 2406.

Chuck Wilson, Ford ASSET coordinator, and Andy Rezin, Ph.D., chair of Automotive Technology, have been selected to sit on the ASSET National Advisory Board. From the 40 ASSET schools in the United States, only five colleges have been chosen to serve on the advisory board.

The Ford ASSET (Automotive Student Service Educational Training) program is a partnership between Ford Motor Company and local participating community schools and colleges. The program provides its students with on-the-job training at a Ford dealership while they earn an associate degree in Automotive Technology.

Lt. Kevin Smith, Columbus State Police Department, recently graduated from the 14-month Certified Law Enforcement Executive (CLEE) program.
The CLEE program is a unique course co-sponsored by the Law Enforcement Foundation, Inc. and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. The instructors include noted faculty members at universities across the Midwest and consultants to business and industry.

Participants were selected for the program by meeting set standards in experience, formal and continuing education, as well as professional-related experience. For more than a year, they received instruction in modules concerned with ethics; change management; interpersonal skills; vision, mission and organizational values; strategic planning; external environmental management; and resource allocation and utilization.

Lt. Kevin Smith, center, is presented his certificate by (right) Joseph Morbitzer, Westerville Chief of Police and the Chair of the CLEE Executive Board, and (left)Russell Martin, Delaware Chief of Police and President of the Ohio Association of Chief's of Police.